ACRL News Issue (B) of College & Research Libraries


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JCLIC CONTINUES
The Junior College Library Information 

Center at American Library Association head­
quarters is being continued for an additional 
three-month period through May 31. The 
Center was established by a grant of $15,000 
from the 1967-68 J. Morris Jones-World Book 
Encyclopedia-ALA Goals Award and has 
served to collect and to make available informa­
tive materials about junior college libraries and 
library programs. The Center is under the direc­
tion of Peggy Sullivan on a half-time basis.

Many of the materials forwarded to the 
Center from two-year college librarians and 
others interested in its development have been 
incorporated in the Headquarters Library of 
the American Library Association. These in­
clude staff handbooks, faculty handbooks, stu­
dent handbooks, materials on two-year college 
library buildings, etc. Materials retained in the 
Junior College Library Information Center 
include blueprints and plans for two-year li­
braries, materials that are available on request, 
and materials which may be consulted by visit­
ing the Center. Copies of annual reports, 
budgets, project proposals (whether funded 
or not), newsletters, handbooks, and other 
items which may be especially helpful to 
those starting or developing two-year college 
library programs are especially solicited for 
the Center’s collection. When the Center is 
discontinued May 31 these materials will be 
made available through other agencies of the 
American Library Association or outside agen­
cies which have means for using them or dis­
tributing them to interested persons. ■ ■

ASSISTANCE FOR LIBRARY 
EDUCATION

A new  publication listing scholarships 
and other financial assistance available for 
th e  academ ic year 1969-70 to students en ­
tering th e profession of librarianship has 
just been announced by th e L ibrary E d u ­
cation Division of th e American Library 
Association.

T he guide for parents, counselors, and 
students alike, Financial Assistance for L i­
brary Education is available th rough the 
Office for R ecruitm ent of ALA, 50 East 
H uron Street, Chicago, Illinois 60611.

T he publication provides a list of scholar­
ships and grants adm inistered th rough state 
library agencies, national and state library 
associations and associations of school li­
brarians, ALA accredited library schools, 
and other institutions offering graduate or

u n d erg rad u ate program s in library educa­
tion. N ational associations, foundations and 
other agencies know n to g ran t financial as­
sistance for library education are also listed.

M embers of the L E D  com m ittee on re­
vision of th e pam p h let are H elen B. 
Schmidt, chairm an; M argaret J. Byergo; 
D orothy L. Cromien; E liza A. Gleason; and 
Elinor Yungmeyer.

Copies of th e  publication are available at 
th e following prices: one copy, 50 cents; 
10 copies, $4.75; 25 copies, $11.25; and 
100 copies, $42.00.

INDIANA UNIVERSITY 
LIBRARY SUFFERS FIRE LOSS

A fire of undetermined origins in the main 
library building at Indiana University on Feb­
ruary 17 caused an estimated $500,000 dam­
age to library collections. A complete count of 
book losses has not yet been made. It is known, 
however, that 3811 volumes of domestic and 
foreign newspapers and several hundred ref­
erence works were totally destroyed. Library 
authorities estimate that more than 30,000 vol­
umes damaged by heat, smoke or water must 
be either rebound or replaced. Building dam­
age has not been estimated. The building and 
its contents were insured.

Three floors in the sixty-two year old main 
library building were damaged. The fire orig­
nated in a sub-basement area used for news­
aper storage and spread through ventilating 
ucts to the basement above and the main ref­

erence room on the first floor. Bloomington fire­
en brought the blaze under control within 

our hours after arriving on the scene.
The destroyed newspapers consisted of forty- 

our different titles, including The Times (Lon­
on), Manchester Guardian, Illustrated London 
ews, San Francisco Examiner, St. Louis Post 
ispatch, Chicago Journal of Commerce, the 
all Street Journal and other domestic and 

oreign dailies and weeklies. Reference works 
estroyed included dictionaries, encyclopedias, 

ndexes and abstracts. Monographs destroyed or 
amaged related to Near Eastern Studies, Ger­
an and French literature, geography, political 

cience, and international law and organization. 
mmediate steps have been taken to replace the 
ewspapers with microfilm copies where avail­
ble. All in-print titles destroyed will be re­
laced. Emergency binding shipments are be­

ng sent weekly to a commercial binder to re­
lace the damaged bindings. The fire occurred 
pproximately two months before all books in 
e old building were scheduled to be moved 

nto a new $14,000,000 library building nearing 
ompletion.

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